Support for X86 and ARM, so there’s still hope for smartbooks running Chrome OS

All Google apps you see today will look and behave exactly the same in Chrome OS

Android apps will not be compatible — remember, no local apps installed.

Google will actually sell the netbook hardware work with partners on the hardware that runs the operating system

Main use case for Chrome OS requires connectivity, such as Wi-Fi. Google is planning for 802.11n support

Chrome OS devices aren’t intended to be your primary machine. Google assumes you have a second computer at home or work

Google was coy on device pricing but said to expect prices that customers are used to today. I take that to be around $300 to $400

Local user data is simply stored in a cache. The book of record for your data will be on Google’s servers

You won’t need a Chrome OS machine to use it. Most all of the Chrome OS features will be baked into the Chrome browser.

Interesting approach to security: “Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot.”

There’s more info to digest, which I’ll be doing over the afternoon. Suffice it to say, Chrome OS isn’t an “operating system” by traditional standards. This is more of a paradigm shift to determine what an OS is and a way to get consumers more reliant on the web where possible. In some sense, I feel that this is more bare-bones than I wanted to see. But that feeling comes from how we’ve defined an operating system up to now. I’m planning to step back and re-think my point of view because I’ve always felt that I can live in a browser. I did it before for 60-days with a safety net — the question now is: can I do it without the net?